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Learning MS Dynamics AX 2012 Programming

By : Mohammed Rasheed, Erlend Dalen
Book Image

Learning MS Dynamics AX 2012 Programming

By: Mohammed Rasheed, Erlend Dalen

Overview of this book

<p>This tutorial has been carefully structured to guide you through the basic features of AX development and get you started as quickly as possible. With this book, you will soon be able to develop and maintain comprehensive management solutions to enhance your Dynamics AX 2012 application's performance. Starting with a tour of the development environment, you'll gain a deep understanding of Dynamics AX tools and architecture, before getting to grips with X++ for deeper customization. You will also learn how to search, manipulate, and integrate data.</p> <p>The practical examples in this book take you through sample AX development projects and help you learn to create forms, reports, menu&nbsp; items, menus, and navigation pages. The book also helps you work with MorphX. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of the inner workings of Microsoft Dynamics AX—making your development simpler and faster, and your applications fast, reliable, and robust.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning MS Dynamics AX 2012 Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Links
Debugger
Index

Chapter 1. Understanding Dynamics AX 2012

In this chapter, you will learn how the development environment is structured and what tools are accessible to the developer in Microsoft Dynamics AX. The famous Hello World code will be a piece of a cake for you to understand after the first step-by-step walkthrough in this book, and you will know what the different nodes in the application object tree represent.

Here are some of the topics you will learn in this chapter:

  • A tour of the development environment

  • A look at the tools available

  • Creating a job that prints something on the screen

  • An overview of the AX architecture